Stupid idea, waste of time

LE

"The UK introduced valuable institutions to its colonies, even if some of those former colonies are now trying to get rid of them," he said.

"Unfortunately we are trying to deal with the institutions left by the Soviet legacy. We would have loved to inherit the judiciary that Britain left its colonies." The Georgian president also praised the way Britain relinquished its empire.

ADC

"The UK introduced valuable institutions to its colonies, even if some of those former colonies are now trying to get rid of them," he said.

"Unfortunately we are trying to deal with the institutions left by the Soviet legacy. We would have loved to inherit the judiciary that Britain left its colonies." The Georgian president also praised the way Britain relinquished its empire.

LE

''We would have loved to inherit the judiciary that Britain left its colonies''..
Yes, but would he have copied most of the newly independent ex-colonies and thrown out the British style judiciary and installed a police state?

LE

a)a big new RN with real battleships
b)root and branch renovation of the grammar school system
c)a ban on Oxbridge graduates going into the media!
d)an initial conscription of Oxbridge graduates into the Indian Civil Service
e)resurrection of the trading and manufacturing base of the UK (oops GB)
f)hodloads of "white men" willing to take up their burden once again
g)an idealistic concept of empire as duty (it may be somewhere in the archives at the FCO??)

They used to say if an infinite number of chimps typed we would get the works of Shakespeare, the internet has proved this is NOT the case...

ADC

a)a big new RN with real battleships
b)root and branch renovation of the grammar school system
c)a ban on Oxbridge graduates going into the media!
d)an initial conscription of Oxbridge graduates into the Indian Civil Service
e)resurrection of the trading and manufacturing base of the UK (oops GB)
f)hodloads of "white men" willing to take up their burden once again
g)an idealistic concept of empire as duty (it may be somewhere in the archives at the FCO??)

The trading and manufacturing base you mention was established and kept in place by the "Imperial Preference" scheme - and the contention of First Wave revisionist historians ( 70's Sussex Poly era) is that in the early days of Empire , Britain achieved its manufacturing eminence by systematically destroying the indigenous industrial base (particularly in India)

The SecondWave of revisionist historians (notably Niall Ferguson) says this is c0ck...

Heath's determination to drag us into the EEC was the death-knell of the old Empire trade. The Japanese ( and more recently of course China) stepped cheerfully into the gap we left behind.

Le Chevre

' When does a 'personality simulation' become the bitter mote of a soul ?' Alfred Lanning

LE

The story, in flashback, of the death of a British Telegraph engineer in Georgia, USSR in 1920. Caught up in a civil war, and a war between his girlfriend and the women the Company send as "Christmas presents", he seeks asylum in a small patch of British territory (round one of his telegraph poles.)

Old-Salt

a)a big new RN with real battleships
b)root and branch renovation of the grammar school system
c)a ban on Oxbridge graduates going into the media!
d)an initial conscription of Oxbridge graduates into the Indian Civil Service
e)resurrection of the trading and manufacturing base of the UK (oops GB)
f)hodloads of "white men" willing to take up their burden once again
g)an idealistic concept of empire as duty (it may be somewhere in the archives at the FCO??)

Trust me, if many of my Oxford contemporaries had the opportunity to be building courthouses, post offices, drains and red pillar-boxes across Tanganyika while wearing pith helmets, dispensing summary justice and drinking gin and tonics they would. Instead, one has joined the Australian diplomatic service and is serving in Persia, others are/have been attached to economic development agencies / schools in Ceylon, Nyasaland, British Guiana and the Maldives. Sadly many others are in the City.

War Hero

1: If Georgia was worth colonising in the first place we'd have been there.
2: The potential occupation forces have got a little bit on their plate right now.
3: The valued judiciary ain't what it used to be.
4: We have a Foreign Office hthat would rather sell loyals down the road then assert their rights - ask:
a. A Gibraltarian.
b. A Falkland Islander.
5. More rants to follow if provoked.

LE

Ah Sergey I always knew ya where really one of us. You must be the Ultimate Wanabee, from Komisar to subject of HM ( Luvvly Lady) and just ta keep ya happy we'll send Duke of Kent as Queens rep. said ta look like ya last hireditary Govoner. ( Zsar not Boris)
john
'A note: I express only my private opinion. Take into account, please, that I don't belong to the British military.'